Tag: Tax Reform

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and National Economic Director Gary Cohn speak about the White House tax reform plan. The plan that President Trump and congressional Republicans are working toward would likely yield significant tax cuts for high-income earners. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

New polling shows GOP how to defend tax reform

Joseph Lawler · August 8, 2017 3:09 pm

The problem facing GOP lawmakers like Sen. Orrin Hatch is that if they want to eliminate those $700 billion in taxes as part of tax reform without adding to the deficit, they would have to do so by eliminating a proportionate amount tax breaks. (AP Photo, File/Cliff Owen)

Obamacare repeal failure gives Republicans a tax headache

Joseph Lawler · August 7, 2017 4:01 am

President Donald Trump reacts on seeing visitors to the White House as he walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, Aug. 4, 2017, to board Marine One helicopter for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md. en route to Bedminster, N.J., for vacation. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Washington Secrets

Trump Report Card: Still a mess of the president’s own making

Paul Bedard · August 5, 2017 12:14 pm

If Congress fails to pass the No Regulation Without Representation Act or similar legislation, states will continue to push to tax and regulate beyond their borders. (iStock by Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

Congress should stop states from taxing and regulating beyond their own borders

peter-orourke, Clark Packard · August 5, 2017 4:01 am

To make the numbers add up, Republicans plan on counting on the reform to boost economic growth and accordingly tax revenues. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Gary Cohn: Tax reform must be permanent and balanced

Joseph Lawler · August 4, 2017 2:53 pm

Vice President Mike Pence spoke about the need for both healthcare and tax reform at the Tennessee GOP 2017 Statesmen's Dinner at Music City Center in Nashville. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Mike Pence: Healthcare reform fight ‘ain’t over by a long shot’

Jack O'brien · August 4, 2017 3:05 am

Several senators said that they aren't abandoning their Obamacare repeal efforts, but they need to start work on tax reform. "We've gotta start forming up consensus around tax reform," said Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C. "That takes time. [Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell] has to get that track moving." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Senate Republicans not ready to give up on Obamacare repeal

Robert King · August 2, 2017 10:03 pm

The legislation would need to be in introduced by September or October and would need to make the tax cuts effective for 2017, Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., said. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Mark Meadows: If tax reform isn’t signed by Thanksgiving, it won’t get done

Joseph Lawler · August 2, 2017 5:55 pm

Insurers, doctor and hospital groups have teamed up with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to ask Congress to continue paying Obamacare subsidies amid reports that President Trump wants to do away with them. The organizations said the uncertainty is creating turmoil on the individual insurance market. The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Time for multilateral tax reform disarmament

Washington Examiner · August 2, 2017 1:06 am

President Trump lauded his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner as a "good boy" and boasted that the leader of the Boy Scouts told him his controversial jamboree speech was the "greatest speech that was ever made to them." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump lauds Kushner as ‘good boy’, boasts Boy Scout speech ‘greatest ever made’

Josh Siegel · August 1, 2017 9:51 pm

McConnell also announced Tuesday that the GOP would push for a tax reform bill without any help from Democrats. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Mitch McConnell: GOP, Democrats have to resolve debt ceiling ‘together’

Susan Ferrechio · August 1, 2017 7:48 pm

Senators from both parties praised the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit at a hearing Tuesday, with lawmakers calling to expand the break rather than limit it. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Affordable housing tax break has bipartisan support in tax reform effort

Joseph Lawler · August 1, 2017 5:30 pm